Out of Time | | Cast : | Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan | | Director : | Carl Franklin | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 03, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | May 04, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 14, 2005 | | Summary | 4.5 stars? | Content
 | Out of Time is about a drug busting cop who is caught in a plot. He has an affair with a girl who turns out to scheme for his money. She tells him she has cancer, and that the treatment she needs costs a lot of money. Denzel takes the drug-bust money and gives it to the girl, but the girl, along with a few accomplices, flees and sets him up for murder through arson. Denzel finds himself in a big pile of mess. He must get the money back and somehow get himself out of all the trouble.
This movie has kept me at the edge of my seat. My eyes, literally, could have be taken off the screen. As great as the movie is, it is kind of predictable. Still, I recommend it to everyone. Very enjoyable and thrilling! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 18, 2005 | | Summary | Denzel Plays Bogey | Content
| Denzel Washington has a shtick now that serves him well. He can exaggerate it up or tone it down depending on the intensity of his neo-Bogart-gangster-hero portrayal. Actually, it's good to see an actor pick up on the Bogart persona, the world wary American that doesn't stick his neck out for nobody till the bad guys make him mad.
The locale is the Florida Key, Banyan, and our police chief, separated from a gorgeous detective (only in the movies) is fooling around with a high school sweetheart that is married to a white, ex-professional football quarterback. Keeping the affair a secret from the cuckold is part of the delicious fun, but then things turn ugly when Denzel gets mushy over Sanaa Lathan; indeed, he goes over the line for the beauty.
Now he's broken the law and his own department is on his tail not to mention Federal agents. Can Denzel solve the murder before being arrested for the same murder? It doesn't really make sense, but that Bogart thing keeps you in it until the contrived end.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | Starts slow, but picks up speed. | Content
| Denzel Washington plays a police chief in a small town in Florida. We first see him having an affair with a married woman stricken with cancer. His girlfriend has terminal cancer and it looks like her only chance to afford treatment has slipped away. Denzel's character, Chief Whitlock, then makes an illegal decision to help her financially. Shortly after this we see him served with divorce papers. And his girlfriend and her husband turn up dead in a house fire started by arson. Of course from our point of view the only culprit can be Whitlock.
This is where the movie really starts. The police force starts to track down the killer. At the same time, Whitlock's works hard to stay one step ahead of the investigation. This is a definite suspense movie. I was on the edge of my seat as I watched Whitlock race to stay one step ahead of the investigation. Denzel really sold this character. He did great job acting and made it realistic. Though the movie is fun to watch once it gets moving. I found it hard to believe that any police chief would do what he did. It is still defiantly worth watching.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 31, 2005 | | Summary | Entertaining movie, as long as | Content
| you're willing to suspend common sense and basic belief. But then, isn't that what movies are about? Denzel, Mendes and Billingsley turn in very good performances, though Mendes would have been an asset to the film even if she didn't say a word. An amazingly sexy woman. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 26, 2005 | | Summary | Good thriller if you can get by the nonsense | Content
| I found it odd that Denzel Washington, an actor rarely linked with romance in films, has romantic relationships with two 20-somethings in "Out of Time" and is supposed to play someone in his mid-30s. This was only the first plot twist that fractured my concept of suspended reality in this flick.
To put it more directly, I could not believe much of what was occurring on screen in this film. I enjoyed the movie and agree it is a good thriller, but I cannot lend much credibility to the overall film. I'd like to say this movie is a great work of art, but it isn't. It has many very entertaining moments but its weaknesses outnumber its strengths, in my opinion. The end product is it is not a very memorable film, although it could have been with more appropriate casting and direction.
There were too many coincidences, too many plot twists that could never occur in real life, and too many miscast characters, the first being Washington's wife that was a police investigator but looked and dressed like she was a model throughout the film. Her lipstick and eyebrows were so beautiful and so artistically done that...well, I couldn't believe she was a cop. She exhibited about as much police acumen and investigative imagination as a supermodel, too. This was a ridiculous piece of casting done obviously to show off a beautiful person.
The Amazon review said this movie was, "Partly inspired by 1948's 'The Big Clock' and its nominal 1987 remake 'No Way Out', the Denzel Washington thriller Out of Time is quite enjoyable if you ignore its implausible plotting." That is very generous praise, indeed. I see a relationship between Kevin Costner's remake of "No Way Out" and this film but none between the classic "The Big Clock" with Ray Milland.
If you order those films in terms of their place in Hollywood legend, "The Big Clock" is up among the top 200, "No Way Out" is among the bottom half of the film's of its decade and this movie is even lower than that. So enjoy the action and try not to intellectualize this movie, for their is little to think about that makes sense. |
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